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437 Tales of Two Idle Apprentices 15 

683 The Ghost's Touch 10 

686 My Lady^s Money 10 

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889 The Guilty River.. 10 

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228 Oui- Mutual Friend. 2 Parts, each.. .20 

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Contaiina Fleming 20 

Vivian Gray, Part 1 20 

Vivian Gray, Part 11 20 

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1080 The Blue Veil; or. The Crime of 

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70 Molly Bawn 20 

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132 Moonshine and Marguerites 10 

102 Faith and Unfaith 20 

l(i8 Beauty's Daughters 20 

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530 In Durance Vile 10 

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624 A Passive Crime 10 

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792 Her Wi'ek's Amusement 10 

802 Lady Valvvorth's Diamonds 20 

1005 A Modern Circe 20 

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113(5 Jiarvel 20 

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775 The Three Guardsmen 20 

786 Twenty Years After 20 

884 The Son of Monte Cri.sto, Part I 20 

884 'J'he Son of Monte Cristo, Part If.. .20 

885 Monte Cristo and His Wife 20 

891 Countess of Monte Cristo, Part I... 20 

891 Countess of Monte Cristo, Part 11.. .20 

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Annette 20 

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Sweet as a Rose 20 

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Susan Fielding 20 

A Vagabond Heroine 10 

Philip Eariiscliffe 20 

Vivian the Beaut}' 10 

Steven Lawrence ■ 20 

A Playwright's Daughter 10 

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71 Silas Marnev 10 

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149 Janet's Repentance 10 

151 Felix Holt 20 

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374 Essavs, and Leavw from a Note- 
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Ten Years of His Life . , 20 

Agatha 20 

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Aunt Parker 20 

A Secret Inheritance 2(1 

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Life of Mary Anderwm 10 

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Seekers after God 20 

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1004 This Man's Wife 20 

1000 The Bag of Diamonds 20 

1129 The Story of Antony Grace 20 

1132 One Maid's Mischief 20 

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41 A Marriage in 11 ig.h Life 20 

987 Romance of a Poor Younsr Man. . . .10 
Led Astray, adapted by Helen M. 
Lewis 20 

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False 20 

A Sinless Ciiine 20 

Leola Dale's Fortune 20 

Who Was the Heir? 20 

Only a Girl's Love 20 

Countess (sabel 10 

How He Won Her 20 

Sun.^hine and Gloom 20 

A Sisters t-"ac.rifice 20 

A Terrible Secret 20 

Slaves of the Ring 20 

Entranped 20 

$5.(100 Reward 20 

Wild Margaret 20 

LAURA C. FORD'S WORKS 

Enemies Born ,20 

Electra. 20 

For 11 onor's Sake 20 

Daksy Darrell 20 

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1102 Oiilv a (^oral Girl 20 

In the Old Palazzo .20 

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Once Again 20 

My Lord and My Lady 20 

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485 My Roses 20 

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116 The Lerouge Case 20 

120 Other People's Money 20 

129 In Peril of His Life 20 

138 Tiie Gilded Clique 20 

155 Mystery of Orcival 20 

101 I'romise of Marria:^e 10 

258 File No 113 20 

1119 The Little Old Man of the Bati- 

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1133 The Count's Millions, Pnrt 1 20 

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1153 The Slaves of Paris, Part 1 20 

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343 Goethe's Poems 20 

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1016 Taras Bulba .20 

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51 Vicar of Wakefield. 10 

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89 The Dean^s Daughter 20?, 

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What Love Will Do 10,- 

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As Fate Would Have It 20 

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ICOl Frankley 20 

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Wild Oats - 20 

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The Flirt 20 

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732 Victory Deane 20 

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709 No. 99 .'10' 

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221 Fairy Tale.s, Illustrated 20 

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1090 The Co-operative Common wealth.. 30 

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440 History of the Mormons 15 

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97 India and Ceylon 20 

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848 She 20 

876 The Witch's Head 20 

900 Jess 20 

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His Brother's Willow 20 

A Wife's Grime 20 

The Young School-Teacher 20 

A Great Divorce Case 20 

A Curious Disappearance 20 

The Divorced WiCc 20 

Blind Elsie's Ci'ime 20 

Wronged 20 

BY GEOEGE HALSE 
Weeping Ferry .20 

BY THOMAS HASDY 

43 Two on a Tower 21 

157 Romantic Adventures of a Milk- 
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749 The Mayor of Casterbri<Ige 20 

95(5 The Woodlunders 20 

964 Far from the Madding Cio wd 20 

BY BIAEION HARLAND 

107 Housekeeping and llomemaking.. . .15 

BY JOHN HARRISON AND M. 
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414 Over the Summer Sea , 20 

BY J. B. HARV/OOD 

269 One False, both Fair 20 

BY JOSEPH HATTON 

7 Clytie 20 

187 Cruel London 20 

1147 The Abbey Murder 20 



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S70 Twice Told Tale.s 20 

376 Grandfather-s Chair 20 

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566 The Arundel Motto 20 

590 Old Myddleton's Money 20 

787 A Wicked Girl 10 

971 Nora's Love Te-t 20 

972 The Squire's Legacy 20 

97:^ Dorothy's Venture. 20 

974 My First Offer IJJ 

9T5 Back to the Old Home 10 

976 For Her Dear Sake 20 

977 Hidden Perils 20 

978 Victor and Vanquished 20 

1029 Brenda Yorke 10 

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533 Principles and Fallacies of Social- 
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356 Hygiene of the Brain 25 

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The Lover's Creed 20 

A Stern Chase 20 

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A Tieacherons Woman 20 

Married by the Mayor 20 

A Harvest of Thorns 20 

Laughing Eyes 20 

Married at M dnight 20 

Lost to the World 20^ 

Love Conquers Pride 30 

A Miserable Woman 20 

A Sister's Vengeance 20 

Leah's Mistake 20 

A Tom-Boy 20 

Broken 'v'ows 20 

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709 Woman against Woman 20 

743 A Woman's Vengeance 20 

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73 Life of Cromwell 15 

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His Wedded Wife 20 

A Groat Mistake 20 

A Fatal Dower 20 

Barbara 20 

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36 Life of Marion 20 

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14 The Tricks of the Greeks 20 

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970 Against Her Will 20 

993 The Child Wife 10 

A V/oman's Atonement 20 

Irene Gray's Legacy 20 

Sundei-ed Hearts 20 

Doubly Wronged 20 

Uncle Ned's Cabin 20 

A Blighted Home 10 

A Mother's Mistake 20 

A Haunted Life 20 

A Desiiorate Woman 20 

Little Nana 20 

Ev Mutual Consent 20 

Little Madeline 20 

Xittle Sunshine ...20 

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534 Papa's Own Girl 30 



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Pai-tV 10 

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" " Part Via 10 

I'artlX 10 

" " PartX 10 

" " PartXl 10 

" " Part XII 10 

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Tom Brown's 8chool Days 90 

Tom Brown at Oxford, 2 Parts,each.l5 

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264 Life of Scott 20 

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BY WASHINGTON IRVING 

147 The Sl<etch Book 20 

198 Tales of a Traveller 20 

199 Life and Voyages of Columbus, 

Pai-t 1 20 

Life and Voyages of Columbus, 

Part II 20 

224 Abbotsfurd and Newstead Abbey .. .10 
236 Kniekerbocker History of New York. 20 

249 The Crayon Papers 20 

263 The Alhambra 15 

272 Conquest of Granada 20 

279 Conquest of Spain..... .....10 

281 Bnrcebridpp Hall 20 

290 Salmagundi. ... ..20 

299 Asforia 20 

301 Spanish Voyages 20 

305 A Tour on the Prairies .10 

308 Life of Mahomet, 2 Parts, each ... .15 

310 Oliver Goldsmith 20 

311 Captain BnniieviUe 20 

314 Jloorish Chronicles 10 

321 Wolfert's Koo.st a'ld Miscellanies 10 

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Darnley 20 

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The Secret of Her Life . 20 

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MRS. EMMA GARRI30N JONES 

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BY EDWARD KELLOGG 

Labor and Capital 20 

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BY JOHN P. KENNEDY 
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L'-iglitoii Court. 20 

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Mark Seavvorth 20 

Round the World 20 

The Young Foresters 20 

Salt Water 20 

The Midshipman 20 

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A Brighton Night... 20 

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Lorimcr and Wife 20 

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Prince of the Hundred Soups 10 

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Charles O'Mallev. 2 Parts, each 20 

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849 Handy Andy ^ 

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907 Knights-Errant 20 

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275 lone Stewart 20 

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19 Leila 10 

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32 The Haunted House 10 

45 Alice: A Sequel to Ernest Maltra- 

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55 A Strange Story 20 

69 Tjast I )ays of Pomvieii 20 

81 Zanoni 20 

84 Nipht and Morning, 2 Parts, each. 15 

117 Paul Clifford 20 

191 Lady of Lyons 10 

128 Money 10 

152 Richelieu IC 

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204 Eu'jone Aram 20 

229 The Disowned 20 

240 Kenelm Chillingly 20 

245 What Will He Do with It ? 2 Parts, 

e;ich 20 

217 Pevereux 20 

250 The Caxtons, 2 Parts, each 15 

2.53 Lncreiia 20 

255 Last of the Barons. 2 Paris, each .. .15 

259 The Parisijins. 2 l'art=, each 20 

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276 Harold, 2 Part-s, each 15 

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317 Pausanias 15 

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1053 Gold Elsie 20 

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212 The rri%-ateersman 20 

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903 The Master Passion 20 

9(1-1 A Lucky Disappointment ...10 

905 Her Lord and Master 20 

906 My Own Child S.0 

ifU7 No Intentions 20 

908 Written in Fire 20 

909 A Little Stepson 10 

910 With Cupid's Eyes 20 

931 Why Not ? 20 

937 My Sister the Actress 20 

938 Captain Norton's Diary 10 

939 Girls of Feversham '. 20 

940 The Root of all Evil 20 . 

9 12 Facing the Footlights 20 

913 Petrenel 20 

944 A Star and a Heart . .10 

945 Au2-e. 20 

916 A Harve.st of Wild Oata ,20 

917 The Poison of A^ips 10 

948 Fair-Haired Alda 20 

919 The Heir Presumptive 20 

950 Under the Lilies and Roses 20 

9."il Heart of Jane Wiirner 20 

959 Love's Conflict, Part 1 20 

952 Love's Conflict, Part II 20 

953 Phyllida 20 

954 Oat I >f His Reckonine 10 

979 Her World against a Lie 20 

990 Open Sesame 20 

991 Mad Dumaresq 20 

999 Fit!ht:ng the Air 20 

Peeress and Player 20 

D.riven to Bay 20 

The Confessions of Gerald Estcourt..20 

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The Russian-! at the Gates of Herat.. 10 

BY MRS. HERBERT MARTIN 

For a Dream's Sake 20 

Amor Viiicit 20 

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.353 Tales of the French Revolution 15 

354 Loom and Lugger 20 

•3fj7 Berkeley the Banker 20 

■358 Homes Abroad 15 

.'S63 For Each and For All 15 

372 Hill and Valley 15 

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395 Sowers not Reiipers 15 

400 Glen of the Echoes 15 



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1050 My Lady Green Sleeves 20 

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60 The Two Duehesses 20 

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115 An Outline of Irish History 10 

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278 Maid of Athens ...20 

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Guy Kenuiore's Wife "-iO 

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377 Life of Defoe 10 

The Crack of Doom 20 

BY MES. MOLESWOETH 

1008 Marrying and Giving in Marriage . .10 

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1008 Flora Lvndsay .20 

1074 Roughing it in the Bush 20 

1076 Life in the Backwoods 20 

1085 Life in the Clearings -.^ 20 

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139 Pike County Polks 20 

BY ALAN MUIE 
312 Golden Girls 20 

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1000 Frederick the Great, and Ins Court. .30 

1014 The Daughter of an Empress 30 

1054 Goethe and Schiller' SO 

1091 Queen Hortense SO 

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435 Miss Tommy 15 

751 King Arthur 20 

Young Mrs. Jardine 20 

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197 By the Gate of the Sea 15 

758 Cynic Fortune 10 

1116 One Traveller Returns 20 

The Way of the World 20 

Riinbinv Gold 20 

First Person Singular 20 

Hearts 20 

A Life's Atonement ... .20 

Val Strange 20 

Aunt Rachel 10 

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BY FLOEENCE NEELY 
564 Haud-Book for the Kitchen 20 

BY EEV. R. H NEWTON 
83 Right and Wrong Uses of i.he Bible. .20 

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347 Life of Byron 10 

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375 Science at Homo 

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BY W. E. NORSIS 

108 No New Thing 20 

592 That Terrible Man 10 

779 My Friend Jim 10 

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PUBLISHER'S KOTE. 

" An Irish Knight " tells the fine and sim- 
ple stoiy of Kobert Enunet ; but, as his stoiy 
was also the histoiy of Ireland for the space 
of his short life, the writer — Miss Davis, the 
daughter of Jeiferson Davis, whose recent 
visit to the Isorth will be remembered — deals 
in " An Irish Knight" not only with the ad- 
venturous and romantic life, and tragic death 
of the patriot, but with the conditions which 
created the need for such a man, and with the 
sad tale of Ireland, in M-hich he became so 
nobly but so fatally implicated. 



AN IRISH KNIGHT. 



Evert man, be he never so great a 
genius, is to some extent the creature 
of his century. Shakespeare wrote of 
Hamlet's father's ghost witli a sincerity 
and reverence which astonishes his mod- 
ern readers ; Goethe believed in the di- 
vine right of kings, and Gibbon, affect- 
ed by the prevalent atheism of Young 
France, speaks but slightingly of the 
birth and progress of Christianity. If 
this be true of literature, where men 
have either to do with records of past 
events or with the creations of their 
own imaginations, how much more so is 
it with a politician or patriot, whose 



b AN IRISH KNIGHT, 

chances of success depend solely upon 
liis ability to crystallize the evei'-vary- 
ing temper of the masses and make the 
populace, that " many-headed monster 
tiling," serve to attain his ends. 

Therefore, it seems necessary to take 
a cursory glance at Irish politics ante- 
rior to the time of E,ol)ert Emmet, be- 
fore it will be possible to understand 
the motive power which could force a 
man possessed of birth and fortune into 
the arms of rebellion and treason. 

Before the Danish invasion, toward 
the end of the eighth century, under 
Fergus, Ireland seems, from the beauti- 
ful account left us by the " Four Mas- 
ters," to have realized the ideal of a 
" land flowino^ with milk and honev ; " 
blessed in the humane Brehon law ; 
blessed in the possession of a country 
eminently adaj)ted to the grazing of 



AN IRISH KNIGHT. 7 

tlieir herds, their chief wealth, and last- 
ly, blessed in the possession of the 
Christian faith. From her had ema- 
nated the first rays that had joenetrated 
the heathen darkness of Germany, Hel- 
vetia, and England. Her monasteries 
were so renowned for their learning 
that students came from the main con- 
tinent of Europe to sit at the feet of 
Irish teach ers, and although agriculture 
was in its infancy, the wonderful 
tombs of the kings, and those round 
towers that crown many of the heights 
(the despair of archaeologists), prove 
that they were well acquainted with 
the laws of architecture. 

Such was the condition of Ireland 
when first invaded. What was her stat- 
us when Henry IL, in 1171, made use 
of a Bull granted by Adrian IV. ceding 
" the territory of Ireland " to him % 



8 AN IRISH KNIGHT, 

Torn by internal dissensions, united 
only, like clouds, by the storm-blast of 
foreign invasion, to be parted again by 
the whirlwinds of self-interest, Ireland 
presents tlie mournful picture of a coun- 
try which foi' nearly four centuries had 
been a prey to civil war. Learning, 
tliat child of gentle Peace, had tak- 
en to herself the wings of the morning 
and flown to the uttermost ends of the 
earth. However, the Brehon law still, 
in a measure, preserved humanity 
among the contending tribes, and the 
septal arrangement insured to every 
man his own tract of land, with a joint 
ownership in the tribal grazing ground. 

This state of independent proprietor- 
ship was, however, to cease. Henry H. 
insisted on the introduction of the feu- 
dal law of tenure of lands, held direct- 
ly from the Crown, a system totally 



AN lEISH KNIGHT. 9 

foreign to either the spirit or letter of 
the tribal conditions under which the 
Irish had formerly existed, thereby lay- 
ins: the foundation of that land ao;ita- 
tion which to this day forms the chief 
disturbing element in British politics. 

The second great factor in the dis- 
affection of the Irish people is the ad- 
verse legislation which, python-like, has 
since 1295 crushed, in its tortuous folds, 
the frame around which Ireland could 
alone hope to build a system of equal 
representation, namely, amalgamation. 
It was in vain that mai-riage with an 
Irishwoman was declared a penal of- 
fence, vain that they were subjected to 
the indignity of proclaiming their na- 
tionality by a black patch on the side 
of the face, vain also that a man could 
be executed and his lands confiscated, if 
he presumed to wear his hair long, or 



10 AN IRISH KNIGHT. 

let Ms miistaclie grow, according to 
Irish custom. The attractions of the 
Irish maidens proved too strong for the 
prohibitory statutes, and intermarriages 
continued to take place. Fifteen years 
after Cromwell's invasion, the children 
of some of his troopers could not speak 
a word of English ! 

To kill an Irishman was considered 
no crime by any English court, and, as 
late as 1647, Irish women and boys 
were shipped as slaves to the West In- 
dia Islands. 

The third, and probably greatest, 
cause of Irish hatred of English su- 
premacy, has been one which would 
awaken the sympathy of any lover of 
freedom ; namely, religious persecution. 
The Roman Catholics, to which denom- 
ination the larger part of the native 
population belonged, were subjected, as 



AN IRISH KNIGHT. 11 

were also the Presbyterians, to a tyr- 
anny rivalling any 2:>ractisecl in tlie 
Netherlands. Prohibited fi-om buying 
land, from holding a lease, and, lastly, 
from the free exercise of their religion, 
they wei'e enjoined, on pain of death 
and forfeiture • of their property, to 
leave their children uneducated ; the 
privilege was also denied of sending 
them abroad to acquire that instruction 
which w^as refused at home by this 
truly paternal Government. To pro- 
mote the better execution of this hu- 
mane statute, a 23remium of one-third of 
his father's estate w^as offered to any 
son informing against his recusant par- 
ent. A wife, too, by joining the Epis- 
copal Church, could obtain a large por- 
tion of her husband's income, together 
with the permission of the law to marry 
again without forfeiting her alimony. 



12 AN IRISH KNIGHT. 

No Catholic was allowed to possess a 
horse valued at more than five pounds, 
in which case any Protestant might ten- 
der him the Test-oath, and on his refus- 
ing to take it, seize both his steed and 
lands. 

Marriages between persons of differ- 
ent creeds were declared unlawful, and 
the children of such unions illeo-itimate. 
These poor people, whose religion was 
their only crime, were debarred from 
entering the army, navy, or practising 
at the bar. The career of a politician 
was closed to them by the Test-oath, as 
were also the colleges, and if a Catholic 
ventured into trade, he was again met by 
the regulation that no recusant should 
have more than two apprentices. The 
crowning statute was passed in the reign 
of George II., by which every Roman 
Catholic was deprived of his vote. 



AN IRISH KNIGHT. 13 

Remembering tliis persecution, we 
can well understand how the people 
rose against the payment of tithes to 
support a clergy so intimately con- 
nected with the Government that it 
was naturally concluded religious per- 
secution emanated from them. While 
their own ecclesiastics were driven 
from the country with a price set 
upon their heads, it is hardly to be ex- 
pected that the Irish would bear in 
silence the imposition of a tax to sup- 
port a Church of Avhich they did not 
approve. 

True, a few priests were allowed to 
remain, but stationed so far apart, and 
the laws so strino;eut ao-ainst their over- 
stepping the boundaries of their par- 
ishes, that they only served, like a fee- 
ble rush-liglit in the catacombs, to 
intensify the surrounding gloom. The 



14 AN IPJSH KNIGHT. 

clergy, too, of the established Church 
were, with rare exceptions, absentees, 
whose poorly paid curates had not the 
heart or the energ)^ to persuade the peo- 
ple into their manner of thinking. 

So the work of sowins; the wind 
went merrily on ; but the Irish, like 
their emblematic shamrock, only grew 
the more luxuriant for this ti'ampling, 
and before 1600 Irish ships and Irish 
enterprise were beginning to be recog- 
nized as factors in the commerce of the 
world. The Liverpool merchants then 
immediately raised such a cry that the 
Government was persuaded into the 
very wise expedient of putting a quietus 
to Irish trade by providing, in the 
"Ship Bill" of 1660, that it should be 
illegal for any Irish vessel to enter the 
carrying trade ; and latei", that Ireland 
should only be allowed to export her 



AN IRISH KNIGHT. 15 

goods to Milford, Chester, and Liver- 
pool. Thus Stafford crushed out the 
enterprise which promised to make the 
'' Green Isle " bloom again. 

It has been said by some that Eng- 
land was 1)ound to repress the tenden- 
cy to rebellion hy stringent statutes. 
That this argument is utterly false and 
pernicious will be evident to any think- 
ing mind. When is a man most ripe 
for revolution — when he has a large fort- 
une at stake, or when he has nothing 
to lose, and probably all to gain ? It 
was not the bourgeoisie of Paris that 
led the Revolution, but the rao:o;ed 
denizens of the Faubourg St. Antoine. 
It was the armed peasants of the moun- 
tains, and not the titled gentlemen of 
Kome, who first raised the standard of 
United Italy. To come nearer home, 
the revolt which set America free was 



16 AN lEISH KNIGHT. 

led, not by tlie great lords whose 
plantations were equal to a dukedom 
in extent and revenue, but by a man 
springing from plain people, and edu- 
cated as a simple surveyor. No man 
can strike as good a blow when his 
heart is with his money-bags. Had the 
geutlemen of Ireland always stood true 
to the peasantry, the dissolution of the 
union had not now been the chief per- 
plexing problem of English politics. 

That such, a penal code should have 
been follov^ed by rebellions innumer- 
able is not surprising ; that the people 
should have been repressed with wanton 
cruelty was the sequel to be expected. 
Sir Walter Raleigh thought it a worthy 
deed to put a whole garrison to the 
sword without mercy, after their surren- 
der, on condition that their lives should 
be spared. Lord Ormond boasted that 



AN IRISH KNIGHT. 17 

he had put to death eighty-eight cap- 
tains, fifteen hundred and forty-seven 
rebels, and four thousand others. 

Famine and pestilence, those two 
gaunt sisters of war, followed close 
upon her footsteps, so that, in the time 
of Elizabeth, Froude tells us, "The 
lowino; of a cow or the sound of a 
ploughboy's whistle was not to be 
heard from Valentia to the Rock of 
Cashel." Nor was this the only occa- 
sion on which whole towns were de- 
populated and counties laid waste. 
Cromwell's proceedings in Wexford and 
Drogheda are another instance of this 
kind ; as well as the depopulation at- 
tendant upon the colonization system 
under James, Charles I. and II., Will- 
iam III., and George I. 

During the ensuing period, the fire of 
Irish animosity was kept aglow by re- 



18 AINT IRISH KNIGHT. 

peated acts of cruelty through which 
the Government sought to quell the ris- 
ing tide of liberalism. However, in the 
year 1782 a free Irish Parliament was 
again established by the efforts of Grat- 
tan, supported by the volunteers, who, 
with arms in their hands, were in a po- 
sition rather to demand than petition 
their rights. Their efforts were, as may 
be imagined, hailed with delight and 
gratitude by their oppressed fellow- 
countrymen, and had this body been 
allowed to exist for a longer period 
there is little doubt that Ireland would 
now be a land rich in commerce, rich in 
agriculture, and richest in peace; but 
the promises of England to this un- 
happy country have ever been like the 
gifts of fairies, which crumble into 
dust at the first touch of the morning 
sunshine. So, the freedom which Grat- 



A]S" IRISH KNIGHT. 19 

tan's magnificent eloquence had recon- 
quered for his people, was bought of a 
carefully packed parliament, in no sense 
representative of the country, for the 
sum of £1,2.60,000, twenty-two Irish, 
six English peerages, twenty-two pro- 
motions and forty-eight patents of no- 
bility. Having cursorily reviewed the 
general march of Irish history down to 
the Union, which now hangs in such a 
delicate balance, we have reached the 
time of the illustrious, though unfortu- 
nate, subject of this sketch. 

Robert Emmet was born March 4, 
1782. He was the youngest son of that 
Robert Emmet who, for many years, 
filled the office of State Physician in 
Dublin. Dr. Emmet seems to have 
held most patriotic views as to the 
duties a man owed his country, and to 
have early impressed his children with 



20 AN IRISH KNIGHT. 

these opinions. Ciirran tells us of the 
" morning draught " of freedom which 
he gave his sons. We catch a glimpse 
of him asking his eldest child. Temple, 
" What he would do for his country ? " 
"Addis," the second, "would kill his 
sister for Ireland." 

Temple, alas, did not, like his broth- 
ers, live to exemplify the deep root 
their father's precepts had taken. He 
was cut off in the full bloom of his 
promising manhood, not, however, be- 
fore having made a name for himself at 
the Irish bar as a young fellow "who 
knew more law and divinity than any 
judge or bishop of them all." 

Thomas Addis Emmet became an 
exile, and died in America, because of 
his efforts for equal representation, and 
the career of Eobert is one long story 
of patriotic devotion. 



AlSr IRISH KNIGHT. 21 

Unlike Byron, no one seems to have 
liacl a premonition of his coming great- 
ness, so the records of his childhood 
are but meagre. We hear, however, 
that he possessed remarkable aptitude 
for exact sciences, especially mathe- 
matics and chemistry, which, indeed, he 
continued to study until his death. He 
had an inveterate habit of bitino- his 
iinger-nails, which at one time came 
very near abridging the record of his 
life to but small compass. When still 
a child, he had one day been experi- 
menting with corrosive sublimate, but, 
taking up his algebra, became engrossed 
in a difficult problem, and fell into his 
usual habit of biting his nails ; the con- 
sequence was an attack of severe pain 
caused by the poison. However, this 
peculiar little fellow consulted the En- 
cyclopaedia and finding chalk to be the 



22 AIT IRISH KNIGHT. 

antidote, took it and crept to bed with- 
out alarming anyone. " Wiien lie came 
down to breakfast next morning," says 
an eye-witness, " his face was as little 
and yellow as an orange, and he told 
a gentleman that he had suffered 
greatly during the night." Neverthe- 
less, the algebraic problem was solved. 
Very strongly does the picture rise be- 
fore us of this strange, knightly child, 
who met the probability of death with 
the same utter fearlessness which 
formed so marked a characteristic of 
his after life. How eagerly must this 
boy have drunk in the stories of oppres- 
sion and tyranny of which Irish history 
is but the partial record ! How must 
his young heart have answered to the 
call of liberty, that goddess who ever 
smiles fairest upon her most youthful 
devotees ! How his bright eyes must 



AN" IRISH KNIGHT. 23 

have shone as lie listened to tlie tales of 
generosity and daring tliat are asso- 
ciated with the names of O'Moore, Ger- 
aldine, and Sarsfield ! It was at the 
feet of his father that Robert Emmet 
learned to love down-trodden Ireland 
better than bis life. 

He was sent to school at an early age 
and came, immediately previous to his 
entrance into the University, under the 
care of one Dr. Lewis, who, although a 
minister of the Episcopal Church, was 
a liberal man and fully awake to the 
injustice of Catholic disfranchisement. 

In 1793, when fifteen years of age, 
Emmet became a member of Trinity 
College, Dublin, where his career was 
marked by brilliant success, both as a 
student and orator. Moore gives a 
picture of him at this time drawn with 
such a loving hand, that the young pa- 



24 AlSr lEISH KNIGHT. 

triot seems to live again, clothed in all 
that ineffable sweetness and personal 
magnetism which made men and women 
in after years suffer torture and death 
rather than betray his hiding place. 

What a gay life the coUegiates of that 
day enjoyed ! Their parties out to 
Dalkey, where they crowned a monarch 
with all the ceremonial of regal state ; 
the pasquinades they wrote against the 
government, the songs they sung, and 
lastly, the suppers, in consequence of 
which the "king lost his crown while 
measuring both sides of the road on his 
way home," as Moore expresses it. 

There is much doubt whether Emmet 
took part in any of these mummeries ; 
to him, young, all aglow with the burn- 
ing desire of freedom, and the ever poig- 
nant sorrow for his oppressed country 
gnawing at his heart, that men should 



AlSr IRISH KNIGHT. 25 

waste their time on masquerades must 
have seemed worse than frivolous. 

No one takes life so seriously as 
young people, that is, when seriousness 
does become a factor in their theory of 
existence. The old have reconciled 
themselves to much, relinquished many 
ho23es, and even to the boldest democrat 
gray hairs seem to bring a modicum 
of conservatism. Many a weary man 
drops his oar as age comes upon him, 
and drifting with the stream of events, 
forgets in his selfish ease the Charybdis 
of anarchy and the Scylla of despotism 
which await the helpless ship of state. 

Moore tells us that when he entered 
the University, Emmet was already cel- 
ebrated for the wonderful purity of 
his life, as well as for the remarkable 
qualities of his genius. 

These two, so unlike, yet having so 



26 AN IRISH KNIGHT. 

many points in common, seem to liave 
drawn very close together. Emmet, 
wlio was passionately fond of music, 
^vonld sit for hours listening to the 
melodies he loved played by "Little 
Tommy ; " and one evening, when he 
struck the last chords of " Let Erin re- 
member the day," Emmet sprang to 
his feet exclaiming, " Oh, were I at the 
head of twenty thousand men, marching 

to that tune " Yet this hio-h-souled 

young Irishman never mentioned the 
plans of that society to which he al- 
ready belonged ; but when, during one 
of the long country walks they took to- 
o;ether. he discovered that Moore was 
the author of a very revolutionary let- 
ter which appeared in "The Press," a 
liberal organ of that time, in his won- 
derfully sweet voice and with " a gen- 
tleness almost feminine," he persuaded 



AlSr IRISH KNIGHT. 27 

the rasli boy to hold himself aloof from 
the political movements of the day. 
He then went on to expound his theory 
of a man's true duty to his country — to 
act, not merely to write or speak. It is 
a singular instance of generosity on the 
part of Emmet, that he should not have 
sought to enlist the already budding 
genius of his friend in Ireland's cause, 
for which himself had ventured life and 
honor. 

At this time the whole island was 
ablaze with patriotic agitation. The 
broken faith of the English crown, and 
the disappointed hopes of the perse- 
cuted Catholics, caused widespread dis- 
satisfaction among the rank and file of 
the people, and cast many into the out- 
stretched arms of the United Irishmen. 
The discovery of the proselyting efforts 
of this society gave rise to a timorous 



28 ATSr IRISH KKIGHT. 

and unwortliy policy on the part of tlie 
government. Tlie pretext of outrages 
committed by the '* Defenders," was 
the cause assigned for putting the coer- 
cion act into practice, by which any 
man being found out of his house be- 
tween sundown and six in the morning, 
rendered himself liable to arrest, and if 
unable to give an account of his busi- 
ness satisfactory to the officer in com- 
mand, was transported to an English 
man-of-war, where he was forced to 
serve as a sailor. 

The militia, chiefly composed of Or- 
angemen, were permitted to break into 
any house, at whatsoever hour they 
pleased, to search for arms, or to ascer- 
tain if anyone besides the regular occu- 
pants was within. That a party of 
men exasperated by constant outrages 
and reprisals should not have been the 



AN IRISH KNIGHT. 29 

best preservers of the peace in a coun- 
try already ripe for rebellion, can easily 
be imagined, and one is not surprised to 
learn tbat in every county under mili- 
tary law, the emissaries of " The United 
Irishmen" should have found fruitful 
soil, and that the branch societies should 
have grown with the rapidity of Jonah's 
gourd. 

Pillage, murder, and arson are not the 
best methods of pacifying a gallant peo- 
ple, and well might the " Receipt to make 
a Rebel " have been given as follows : 

"Take a loyal subject, uninfluenced 
by title, place, or pension, burn his 
house over his head, let the soldiery ex- 
ercise every species of insult and bar- 
barity toward his helpless family, and 
march away with the plunder of every 
part of his property they choose to save 
from the flames." 



30 ATT TEISH KNIGHT. 

At such a period it could hardly be 
that the college of which Emmet and 
Tone were members should remain to- 
tally free from the prevailing temper of 
the times. The historical society, which 
had dragged out an intermittent exist- 
ence since 1770, now became a power- 
ful engine for disseminating patriotic 
and liberal views among the students. 
Here Emmet was destined to win fresh 
laurels by his eloquence ; although 
toward the end of his residence in the 
University all references to modern his- 
tory were strictly prohibited, he was 
able, by subtle allusions and apt paral- 
lels, to raise the enthusiasm of his fel- 
lows to fever heat. 

Moore has preserved for us two of 
their subjects of discussion. " Is a 
democracy or aristocracy most favor- 
able to the advancement of science and 



AlSr IRISH KISTIGHT. 31 

art, and whether a soldier is. at all times 
bound to obey the order of his com- 
manding officer." That Emmet was 
the glowing advocate of democracy 
and the liberty of a soldier to act ac- 
cording to his owu conscience, is of 
course understood. Strange havoc this 
idea would have made amono; the ser- 
ried legions of a Caesar, or the rapidly 
wheeling columns of a Napoleon ; and 
still greater among the heterogeneous 
mass, chosen from all nations, with 
which the great Frederick held the 
allied German powers in check. 

Emmet was to see the day when he 
realized fully the necessity of strictest 
discipline in an army, and the dangers 
consequent upon every man judging for 
himself, while the general was held re- 
sponsible for the conduct of alL " So 
exciting and powerful," says Moore, 



32 AN IRISH KNIGHT. 

" were the speeches of Emmet, and so 
little were the most distinguished 
speakers among oar opponents able to 
cope with his eloquence, that the 
Board, at length, actually thought it 
right to send among us a man of ad- 
vanced standing in the University, and 
belonging to a former race of good 
speakers in the society, in order that he 
might answer the speeches of Emmet, 
and endeavor to obviate what they con- 
sidered the mischievous impression pro- 
duced by them." 

Not many months after this event 
the storm broke, the plot was discov- 
ered, the French exj^edition under 
Hoche did not arrive. "The elements 
seemed," says Walpole, " to fight for 
England," and indeed, in this case ad- 
verse winds detained them on the 
French coast till the tide in the aiffairs 

3 



AK IP.ISH KNIGHT. 33 

of Ireland, whicli might have borne her 
on to independence, was at the ebb, and 
only served to throw her unhappy chil- 
dren upon the treacherous quicksands 
of English mercy. 

Emmet's brother, Thomas Addis, 
was, in 1798, arrested and committed 
to Newgate prison, on the same day 
that the Executive Committee was 
seized at the house of Oliver Bond, 
where they were in session. This move- 
ment initiated the system by which the 
government proposed to crush the re- 
bellion. 

An examining board was created at 
the University, and the students were 
sworn on oath to divulge to the full ex- 
tent their knowledge of the Society of 
United Irishmen, and to give the names 
of any person or jDersons whom they 
knew to be members. On receiving the 



34 AN IRISH KNIGHT. 

news of this inquisition, Emmet wrote a 
letter to tlie board desiring his name to 
be withdrawn from the books of the 
college, which letter lie first showed his 
father, and, having received his entire 
approval of the sentiments therein ex- 
pressed, it was then forwarded. How- 
ever, the dons took no notice of this 
communication, and he was enrolled 
among the expelled students. 

Whatever the connection may have 
been between Emmet and the leaders of 
the United Irishmen, anterior to the 
discovery and frustration of their plans, 
it is an incontrovertible fact that he 
was well acquainted with their subse- 
quent movements, and occasionally 
played the part of messenger for them 
during their imprisonment. 

When Thomas Addis was removed 
to Fort George, in 1800, Emmet em- 



AlSr IRISH Ki^riGHT. 35 

braced the opportunity to leave the 
country, being, as he subsequently had 
reason to believe, already under gov- 
ernment supervision. It was about this 
time that Dr. Emmet, overcome by the 
misfortunes of his eldest surviving son, 
sank into the grave, leaving Robert at 
that period of his existence when he 
most required the counsels of age to 
temj)er the untried ardor of his 3-outh. 

Emmet seems at first to have held 
aloof from the little colony of United 
Irishmen then seeking refuge in Paris, 
and to have travelled in Switzerland, 
Holland, and the French provinces ; 
there is even a repoi't, although not 
well authenticated, that under the as- 
sumed name of Captain Brown, he vis- 
ited Cadiz. 

After the banishment of the political 
prisoners, Emmet met his brother in 



36 AN IRISH KNIGHT. 

Amsterdam, from which city he posted 
direct to Paris, there to become one of 
that little coterie of disappointed pa- 
triots, and to infuse the ardent hope- 
fulness of his own disposition into their 
desolate existence. 

Thomas Addis soon followed him, 
and also joined this party who, relying 
upon the false promises of that great- 
little man Napoleon, were formulating 
the scheme of a second rising of " The 
United Irishmen." Bonaparte was, as 
ever, profuse in offers of assistance ; yet 
even while negotiating with the two 
Emmets, and making, or at least pre- 
tending to make, preparations for a de- 
scent upon the Irish coast, Mr. Gold- 
smith tells us that the First Consul 
submitted proposals to the British Gov- 
ernment, amounting virtually to a mut- 
ual extradition treaty. With the ex- 



AN IRISH KNIGHT. 37 

ception of tlie United Irishmen, no 
other recusant Britisli subjects were in 
France; therefore, if we can accept 
Goldsmith's account, the perfidy of 
Bonaparte is truly appalling. There 
is, nevertheless, a certain alchemy in 
truth which makes it dangerous to use 
deception with a man of perfect integ- 
rity, and Robert Emmet possessed this 
qualit^^ to an extraordinary degree.. In 
his interview with Napoleon, he seems 
with wonderful accuracy to have pene- 
trated the motives of the First Consul, 
and to have determined just how far 
any reliance could be placed on the co- 
operation of French troops. " His," 
Bonaparte's, " only object was to ag- 
grandize France and damage England, 
and, so far as that object went, to wish 
well to any effort in Ireland that might 
be ancillary to the purpose." Of 



38 AN IRISH KNIGHT. 

Talleyrand lie held as unfavorable an 
opinion as of his master, although he 
believed the minister really did desire a 
republic to be established in Ireland, 
whereas Bonaparte's hope was her an- 
nexation to Fi-ance, thereby closing 
England in a vice so powerful that her 
commerce and liberties would soon fall 
a prey to the Gallic army. This opin- 
ion being shared by his brother, the 
two Emmets became the heads of what 
was called the Anti-French party, 
among the exiles ; that is to say, they 
only desired as much recognition from 
the Republic as she had vouchsafed the 
American colonies ; while the other 
party proposed but to change masters, 
and for an Anglo-Saxon oppression 
substitute a Gallic tyranny. 

It was about this time that the fa- 
mous conspiracy under Major Despard 



AN lEISH KNIGHT. 39 

rose so prominently upon the horizon of 
English politics. There is little doubt, 
from the accounts of the secret manipu- 
lations of the press, given us by Gold- 
smith, but that Despard had the coun- 
tenance, if not the assistance of the 
French Government. Many indications 
point to the fact that he was not, as 
was generally believed at the fime, an 
assassin, whose only object was to kill 
King George, but that, in reality, it 
was an English radical insurrection 
which was so anxiously looked for by 
the exiles in Paris. 

During all these two years of com- 
parative peace Emmet had been employ- 
ing himself with the study of military 
science. There can be nothing more 
touching than the vision of this young 
knight preparing himself for " that 
weird battle in the West," where, like 



40 AlSr IRISH KNIGHT. 

Arthur, lie was to fall fighting for his 
people. Amid all the gayety and beauty 
of the French capital, that Athens of our 
modern civilization, he seems to have 
lived a life apart, keeping his vigils 
over that armor of knowledge which he 
hoped to don in his day of trial. There 
are numerous books on tactics in exist- 
ence which are interlined, annotated, 
and bracketed in his hand, with a care 
and discrimination only possible to a 
close student. He seems to have given 
particular attention to those portions 
bearing upon defensive warfare and the 
modes of encampment and attack in a 
mountainous country. 

In the month of October, 1802, he was 
sent by his colleagues in Paris to inves- 
tigate the proceedings of Major Des- 
pard's Irish agent Dowdall. However, 
as the treaty of March 27th had set the 



AN lEISH KNIGHT. 41 

long rankling disputes of England and 
France at rest for a short time, there 
was but little hope of a successful rebel- 
lion. 

Arrived in Ireland, Emmet conversed 
v^ith several men of consequence, v^ho 
advised him on no account to give up 
the proposed agitation of Irish liber- 
ty, proffering their ready assistance in 
funds and service. Be it here observed, 
that not one of those influential persons, 
whose names were carefully concealed, 
ever rendered any of that longed-for aid 
which had been so lavishly promised. 
Emmet said of them : " There were 
many who professed to serve a cause 
with life and fortune, but, if called up- 
on to redeem their pledge, would con- 
trive to do it with the lives and for- 
tunes of others. For my part, my for- 
tune is now committed, the promises of 



42 AN lEISH KNIGHT. 

many whose fortunes were considerable 
are committed likewise, but their means 
have not been as yet forthcoming." 

Until the following March, Emmet 
seems to have gone a good deal in- 
to general society, although closely 
watched by the Government. He took 
up his abode at a country-place belong- 
ino- to his father, and there constructed 
a number of secret chambers and pas- 
sao^es, on which he no doubt relied to 
find a safe asylum in time of danger. 

The personal appearance and manner 
of Robert Emmet at this time, as it has 
been transmitted to us by those who 
knew and loved him, is about as fol- 
lows : Slenderly made, he yet possessed 
great symmetry of frame and grace of 
motion, combined with almost inex- 
haustible powers of endurance ; he was 
small in stature, being only five feet 



AlSr IRISH KNIGHT. 43 

eight inclies high ; of a dark complex- 
ion, with black hair ; his eyes were not 
large, but singularly expressive. His 
forehead was well shaped, the brow 
broad and high, his nose thin and 
straight ; his manner in conversation was 
habitually quiet, but cheerful, never 
tinged by either the braggadocio that 
marks the coward or the recklessness of 
the typical Irishman. Moore says, in one 
of his letters, " My poor friend Emmet 
was as gentle as a girl." It was only 
when speaking on that subject which 
lay nearest his heart — the wrongs and 
sufferings of his beloved Ireland — that 
the whole man seemed to become trans- 
figured. His wonderful voice, which, 
without apparent effort, could fill a 
crowded hall, or ring through the se- 
cluded dells where the society met, 
seemed to become the very spirit of the 



44 AE" IRISH Kl^IGHT. 

man and liis whole body but the instru- 
ment on which it played. 

It was about this period that he met 
Sarah, youngest daughter of the barris- 
ter John Curran. This beautiful and ac- 
complished young woman had the good 
fortune to call forth as true and pure 
an affection as ever warmed a manly 
breast, and shared in future in Emmet's 
heart the throne his country had, until 
now, wholly usurped. That these two 
divinities could exist side by side in a 
soul as mighty as his is evinced by the 
utterances recorded for us by one of 
those who truly revered the noble qual- 
ities of this young patriot. 

The night before the rebellion, when 
encouraging a fellow-conspirator with 
whose lady love Emmet was acquainted, 
he said : " The stagnant veil of inglori- 
ous ease is for those domestic, enamored 



AN- lEISH KNIGHT. 45 

souls wlio are content to pass their life 
in inactive worthlessness, and who wish 
to enjoy affection without having mer- 
ited love. Mine is a higher ambition. 
I must make myself Avorthy of the wom- 
an of my choice. Heaven forbid that 
an excusable passion should thwart the 
design of my life, or cause me for an in- 
stant to neglect my country's good for 
the purpose of promoting my own per- 
sonal advantage." Beneath the quaint 
and verbose style of the day is discern- 
ible that nobleness of principle which 
animated him through life. Well might 
he have exclaimed with , Lovelace : 

"I could not love thee, dear, so much, 
Loved I not honor more." 

It was in March of the year 1803 
that Emmet commenced his first ac- 
tive preparations. The rupture of the 



46 A'N IRISH KNIGHT. 

Treaty of Amiens and the proposed in- 
vasion of Great Britain, on tlae Irish 
coast, renewed the hopes of the patri- 
ots. Thomas Addis having had sev- 
eral audiences with Talleyrand and Bo- 
naparte, and being now assured by 
them that "the Army of England" 
should leave the coast of Brittany in 
August, instructed his brother to begin 
operations for the collecting of arms 
and the organization of those counties 
where the cruelties of '98 still rankled in 
the remembrance of the people. They 
felt sure the standard of rebellion need 
only be raised to assemble an army 
large enough to form a considerable 
factor in the French chance of a success- 
ful invasion. Nor were these enthusi- 
astic men alone in their opinion ; from 
some letters taken on board the Admi- 
ral Alpin, and published in one of the 



AN IRISH KNIGHT. 47 

Parisian journals, we gather that all 
England dreaded the coming storm, and 
that Irish dissatisfaction was also a 
cause of great apprehension to many 
worthy gentlemen whose official position 
necessitated their being more or less ac- 
quainted with the real temper of the 
Government. Contemporaneous litera- 
ture also is evidence that the constant 
fear of a descent upon the English 
coast, or the landing of a French army 
in Ireland, caused a panic, the like of 
which had not been witnessed since the 
Spanish Armada. It was, therefore, not 
such a visionary plan . of Emmet's as 
has been generally supposed, or if so, 
he was, at least, kept in countenance 
by many brave and learned British 
subjects ; and so Ireland, like Sisyphus, 
made one more effort to roll the stone 
of English supremacy up the steep hill 



48 AN IRISH KNIGHT. 

of wealth and prejudice. Emmet's first 
step was to establisli depots in different 
parts of Dublin for the manufacture 
and storage of munitions of war. In 
Patrick Street powder and rockets were 
made; in another house hollow beams 
were put together filled with combus- 
tibles, and the handles of those pointed 
pikes w^ere constructed, on which Em- 
met placed so much reliance; he calls 
them, " the weapons of the brave." Of 
blunderbusses and pistols there seem 
to have been but few ; probably on 
account of the difiiculty in procuring 
funds. The depot in Marshalsea Lane 
was immediately under Emmet's own 
supervision, his chief officers being ap- 
pointed to superintend the other manu- 
factories. The workmen received no 
guerdon for their toil but food and 
lodging, sometimes only the latter ; they 



AlSr IRISH KNIGHT. 49 

labored exclusively for tlie love of Ire- 
land and tlieir leader, and although, 
there were at least forty men in the 
employment of the society, it is most 
remarkable that the Government was 
obliged to introduce paid spies to dis- 
cover their movements, 

Emmet was now boarding with a 
Mrs. Palmer, of Harold's Cross, under 
the assumed name of Hewitt ; but as the 
conspiracy took on grander proportions 
it was necessary for him to have a more 
secluded place of residence. He there- 
fore took a house in Butterfield Lane, 
under the title of Robert Ellis, where 
he continued to reside, with several 
others of his party, until the 16tli of 
June. The manner of life pursued by 
these daring young fellows has been 
preserved for us by Anne Devlin, the 

maid-of-all-work who attended them. 
4 



50 AN IRISH KNIGHT, 

" Tliey had/' slie says, " little or no fur- 
niture, and slept on mattresses laid upon 
the floor. They were always in good 
spirits, and Mr. Hamilton used often to 
sing ; he was a very good singer ; Mr. 
Kobert used sometimes to hum a tune, 
though he was no great singer, he was 
the best and kindest-hearted of all the 
persons I ever knew. He was too good 
for many of those who were about him." 
She also entertained a high opinion of 
Russel, ranking him only second to 
"Mr. Robert." 

It was here that Emmet harangued 
his fellow -conspirators, and from here 
that he made those excursions into the 
surrounding hill-country to meet the 
different bodies of United Irishmen, in 
lonely glens, where he conlirmed the 
vacillating, as, well as persuaded the op- 
posed. One of the society has left us a 



AN IRISH KNIGHT, 51 

vivid description of the dim starlight 
shining upon the open hillside, the si- 
lent figures disappearing down the val- 
ley, one by one, and the -sudden appari- 
tion of armed men starting up out of 
the heather, as if by magic, when he 
reached the gorge's mouth. Once 
fairly inside, he was guided by the 
sweet tones of Emmet's voice, ringing 
through the darkness like a silver 
trumpet, and firing every heart with 
its call to arms. He remarks that the 
chief characteristic of Emmet's oi'atory 
was the evident genuineness of the sen- 
timents he expressed, and the care he 
took to counsel moderation in victory, 
while he called u|}on the people to rise 
against oppression. 

Malichy presented a singular instance 
of the reverse side of Irish character ; 
his orations all tended toward exciting 



52 AK IRISH KKIGHT, 

tlie worst passions of the peasantry. 
On this occasion, seeins: a new face 
among tlie crowd, he suddenly cried, 
^' A spy — a spy ! " A circle of avoid- 
ance was immediately formed around 
the astonished intruder, but Emmet, 
perceiving his position, walked up and, 
taking his hand, said : ^' I am sure there 
must have been a mistake here. Mr. 

K is a young gentleman of liberal 

principles and high notions of honor. 
I am certain that he is incapable of be- 
traying our secret, much less acting as a 
spy upon our proceedings." His con- 
fidence was not misplaced ; K be- 
came one of his staunchest supporters. 

The plan of the rebellion was great- 
ly dependent upon the longed-for inva- 
sion of England ; Emmet's hope was to 
seize the Castle at Dublin, the Pigeon 
House at the mouth of the river, Isl- 



AN lEISH KNIGHT. 53 

and Bridge, Cork Street and Mary- 
Street Barracks, as well as tlie Custom- 
liouse ; the coal quay also was to be 
lield by the insurgents, as well as nu- 
merous houses all through the town 
which were to serve as batteries cover- 
ing iron chains, stretched across the 
street in the manner of a barricade. 
These w^ere to prevent the massing of 
regular troops in any one place. 

Emmet himself was to have com- 
manded the surprise of the Castle ; this 
feat, which was rightly considered the 
key to a successful revolt, was very 
perfectly organized on paper. Emmet 
and about eighteen other daring spirits, 
were to enter the courtyard in coaches, 
as if on their way to a dinner-party. 
Being once within, they proposed to 
throw open the gates to the rebels, and 
at the same moment the insurgents 



54 AN IRISH KKIGHT. 

were to swarm into the citadel from all 
i ! sides, by means of scaling ladders sus- 

; , pended from the windows of the sur- 

rounding houses. The bi'idges were to 
be covered with boards pierced by 
strong iron spikes, to prevent cavalry 
charging over them on the insurgents. 
Large beams filled with combustibles 
were to be distributed in different parts 
of the town, to be set on fire if needed. 

Dwyer, an outlaw of '98, whose story 
reads like one of Verne's wildest ro- 
mances, was pledged to make a demon- 
stration before the walls of the town in 
one direction, while another body were 
to distract the attention of the troops 
on the other side. In the meantime the 
arsenals and garrisons having been 
seized, Dublin would be in the hands 
of the United Irishmen. Emmet had 
in his different depots at the time the 



AN" lEISH KNIGHT. 55 

following munitions of war : 45 lbs. of 
cannon powder, 11 boxes of fine pow- 
der, 100 hand grenades, 62,000 rounds 
of muskefc-ball cartridges, 3 bushels of 
musket-balls, and a quantity of tow 
mixed with tar and other combustibles, 
as well as the beams before mentioned, 
skyrockets for signals, and 20,000 pikes. 

He believed that his arrangements 
were a profound secret, but the subse- 
quent disclosures of " Carotid-artery- 
cutting Castlereagh " prove that the 
Government was cognizant of them al- 
most, if not quite, from the first. 

The policy which allows men to rush 
blindly .on to destruction, that their 
blood may prove a safe cement for the 
foundation of new tyrannies, is one 
which is abhorrent in the extreme to 
any right-minded person. That this 
has been the usual mode of dealing 



56 AN lEISH KNIGHT. 

with Irish rebellions since the time of 
Elizabeth, is also an evident fact to 
those who read, with unprejudiced eyes, 
the history of Hibernian insurrections. 

Buoyed up by the hope of success, 
and undismayed by the prospect of de- 
feat, the conspirators drifted gayly on 
through the early summer. The time 
of the outbreak was fixed for August, 
when Napoleon was expected to pro- 
vide ample work for the English sol- 
diery on their own soil; but Fortune, 
who seemed from the first to frown 
upon the attempt of Emmet, here also 
intervened to force them to an earlier 
issue. 

The first general alarm that the citi- 
zens received was on July 14th, when, 
in honor of the birth of a French re- 
public, bonfires were lighted in dif- 
ferent parts of Dublin, and the most 



AN IRISH KNIGHT. 57 

decided hostility expressed toward the 
Englisli government. This alone would 
not have served to arouse the vigil- 
ance of the authorities, had not an ex- 
plosion taken place in the depot at Pat- 
rick Street on the 16th, caused by the 
drunken carelessness of a workman, 
which disclosed the existence of the 
depots. The munitions of war were, 
however, so speedily removed that the 
officer commissioned to search the prem- 
ises, found nothing more suspicious than 
the apparatus for making gun|)owder ; 
but, unfortunately, in the hurry of 
departure a bag of flints had been 
dropped, which were picked up in the 
street and taken to the Castle, thereby 
affording conclusive evidence of mili- 
tary preparations being in progress. 

Emmet had then, for the first time, 
to meet the demon of dissension. His 



58 ATT IRISH KNIGHT. 

staff, alarmed at the idea of premature 
movement, wliicli now became the only 
chance of gaining their object, wished 
to draw back entirely ; he, however, re- 
fused to listen to the proposition, and 
partly by his eloquence, partly by the 
force of his personality, overcame their 
objections, and the day was fixed for 
July 23d. 

From the time of the explosion, Em- 
met took up his abode in the Marshab 
sea depot, where, surrounded by the 
implements of w^arfare, he wrote procla- 
mation after j^roclamation, and formu- 
lated a system of provisional govern- 
ment for the interregnum following the 
revolution. His indefatigable energy 
was now displayed to the greatest ad- 
vantage. Inspecting the works, encour- 
aging his assistants, attending to the 
printing of his proclamations, and hold- 



AN" IRISH KNIGHT. 59 

ing constant councils with Dwyer and 
other partisan leaders, his time was en- 
tirely absorbed by the cause to w^hich 
he truly said he had "sacrificed his life, 
his fortune, and his love." 

In the afternoon of the 23d the Gov- 
ernment received certain intelligence 
of the rising contemplated for that 
evening. Emmet had, in the forenoon, 
despatched an emissary to bring the 
coaches to Marshalsea Lane, in which 
he hoped to make an entrance into 
the castle ; but the messenger, hav- 
ing embroiled himself in a fight be- 
tween a soldier and a countryman, shot 
and killed Cornet Brown, and was 
obliged to il}^, leaving the coachmen 
without orders. Emmet at this time 
was anxiously expecting their arrival. 
Confusion reigned supreme — dissensions 
in the councils and disorder in the 



GO AN IRISH KNIGHT. 

depot. Since daylight there had been 
a constant influx of undisciplined coun- 
trynien. Anarchy was the spirit of 
the day. The insurgents sat in the 
tavern of John Rouke, sin2:in2; and 
drinking ; others filled the depot de- 
manding weapons. "I was astonished," 
says an eye-witness, " at the fortitude of 
Emmet and Malichy, who continued to 
give orders and distribute arms." So 
great was the confusion that the quick 
and slow fuses became mixed. The 
flints were mislaid, and, owing to the 
density of the crowd, could not be 
found. The leaders, who should have 
been with their men, were carousing at 
the house of John Heavy, where, with 
but few exceptions, they" remained even 
after the firino; commenced. 

Eminet was awaiting the appearance 
of the Kildare men, on whom he chiefly 



AN IRISH KNIGHT. 61 

relied to surprise tlie^ different arsenals ; 
but these brave patriots, most of whom 
had been " out " in '98, were met by 
some traitor, and told that the rebellion 
had been postponed, so they returned 
home, and with them went the hopes of 
Ireland. 

Dwyer got no news of the change 
of date, as the messenger who was to 
have taken the intelligence did not 
leave the city. - The WicMow men 
massed in Dublin to great numbers ; 
but, receiving no orders, and not see- 
ing the signal rocket, returned the way 
they came. 

While things were in this state, and 
the faculties of every man were strained 
to catch the approach of friend or foe, 
Quigley ran wildly into the dej)ot ex- 
claiming, "We are lost! the army is 
coming ! " " Then," said Emmet, " it 



62 AIT IRISH KNIGHT. 

is better to die fighting than cooped up 
here." Seizing his sword he rushed 
into the street, followed by about eighty 
men. Although the alarm was false, 
when once fairly embarked upon the 
tide of revolution all retreat was cut 
off ; they marched on, therefore, toward 
the castle, headed by their gallant lead* 
er. What was his horror when he 
heard that his followers, blinded by 
drink and excitement, had set upon 
and murdered Lord Kilwarclen and his 
nephew, Di\ Wolf, who were passing in 
a coach. As soon as was practicable 
he made his way to the spot, and found 
that truly good man weltering in his 
blood, his half - distracted daughter 
standing beside him. Be it here no- 
ticed that Miss Kilwarden received no 
insult or injury from an Irish mob, 
even when they were infuriated by 



AN IRISH KNIGHT, 63 

blood and liquor. Emmet took the 
poor girl by the band, and led ber to 
a place of safety, tben returned to bis 
men ; but tbis momentary check to the 
impetuous movement of the insurgents 
destroyed the last chance of a success- 
ful revolution. Finding that be was 
no longer able to restrain his men, and 
that from the general of a patriot army, 
marching with high hopes to victory, 
he had degenerated into the leader of 
a riotous mob, he was about to retire. 
Not so Malichy. "Fire the signal," 
said he to the man who held the rock- 
et ; but Emmet insisted, on longer delay. 
"Let no more blood be shed than is 
necessary," was his reiterated command. 
Just at that moment the troops came 
charging down upon tliem, and Emmet, 
crushing the fuse under his heel, gave 
the word to disperse. The military 



84 AN IRISH KNIGHT, 

commenced firing, and tlie insurgents 
fled in all directions, some seeking ref- 
uge on the housetops, where they lay 
concealed behind chimneys and in gut- 
ters, and others again down the dark 
streets and narrow alleys. 

So ended the Rebellion of July, born 
of a patriot's brain, nursed in a pa- 
triot's heart, and baptized in patriot 
blood. 

On the night of the 23d Anne Devlin 
was aroused by knocking at the house in 
Butterfield Lane. On callins^ out to 
know who was at the door, Emmet an- 
swered her, " Oh ! bad welcome to you. 
Is the world lost by you ; cowards that 
you are, to lead the people to destruc- 
tion and then leave them," she cried. 
"Do not blame me, the fault is not 
mine," said Emmet. She tells us that 
none of them ever upbraided Qnigley, 



AN IRISH KNIGHT. 65 

altliough this unliappy man was the 
real cause of their difficulties. 

Emmet and his staff slept in Butter- 
field Lane that night ; but early on Sun- 
day morning they went to the house of 
Anne's father, where they would certain- 
ly have been taken had not the butler 
of Mr. Grierson sent word to Devlin to 
get them off as soon as possible, as their 
retreat had been discovered. He pro- 
cured horses for three of them, and un- 
der his guidance they all escaped into 
the mountains, there to meet again, at 
the last council held with Dvvyer, on the 
hillside. Not a moment too soon had 
they fled. Major Sirr with a party of 
yeomanry seized their first hiding-place. 
Finding it empty they demanded of 
x\.nne what she knew of the "Mr. El- 
lis " to whom it was leased. On her 
refusal to answer this question she was 

5 



66 AN lEISII KNIGHT. 

pricked with bayonets by these gallant 
militia-men until the poor girl lay 
bathed in her own blood, still remain- 
ing true to her master. She was then 
half hanged, but with a fortitude which 
should be honorably remembered by 
all Irishmen, she bore these tortures, as 
well as solitary confinement lasting two 
years, the imprisonment and ruin of her 
family, and insults innumerable, with- 
out revealing any of Emmet's secrets. 

To return to the fugitives. Dwyer 
and the other leaders held a council, in 
which the voice of the majority was 
still for war ; but here again the unself- 
ish patriotism of Emmet was evinced. 
In vain did they persuade him that the 
whole country was ripe for revolt. He 
had seen but too plainly the hopeless- 
ness of the effort, and discountenanced 
all proposals that would necessitate re- 



AN IRISH KNIGHT. 67 

newal of bloodshed. " For," said lie, 
" defeated in our first grand attempt all 
further endeavors must be futile. The 
justice of our cause must one day 
triumph ; let us not indiscreetly pro- 
tract the period by any immature en- 
deavors to accelerate it. No doubt I 
could, in forty-eight hours wra];) the 
whole kingdom in the flames of rebel- 
lion ; but as I have no ambition beyond 
the good of my country, best study her 
interests and the interests of freedom 
by declining to elevate my name ui^on 
the ruin of thousands, and aiford our 
tyrants an apology to draw another 
chain around unhappy Ireland." " He 
spoke," says one who witnessed this last 
flicker of the dying rebellion, " in a sub- 
dued and feeling tone, and as he bade 
them all farewell he appeared deeply 
affected." 



68 AN IRISH KNIGHT. 

One by one the conspirators melted 
away into the night, and left Emmet 
alone with a few of his devoted friends. 
Every man was now to look to his own 
safety, but these insisted on sharing 
their general's peril until he should 
leave the country by one of those fish- 
ing smacks lying off the coast whose 
owners would only too gladly convey 
their defeated chief to a place of safety. 

Strange seems to have been the infat- 
uation which possessed these doomed 
men. They drifted from house to house 
in the vicinity of Dublin without any 
apparent effort to escape, until Thurs- 
day the 28th, when they came very near 
being captured in the tavern at Bohern- 
breena. Chilled by the heavy dews, for 
they had spent the preceding night on 
the hill-side, they called at William 
Kearney's house to get refreshment, and, 



AN IRISH KNIGHT. 69 

while still at breakfast, Constable Rob- 
inson came unsuspiciously into the inn ; 
however, his approach had been seen, 
and the fugitives were already hidden 
in a kind of cockloft reached by a nar- 
row staircase. At about eleven o'clock 
one of the staff, who was looking out of 
the little skylight, their only w^indow, 
perceived a party of live hundred men 
approaching, commanded by Mr. de la 
Touche. The alarm was immediately 
given. Kearney, who was a quick-wit- 
ted fellow, throwing some baskets of 
turf on the stairway, prepared to re- 
ceive the militiamen. Robert Shaw, as 
second officer, demanded to know who 
was within. The tavern keeper replied, 
"No one, sir; the house is not large 
and you can easily see through it." 
Observing the means of access to the 
loft, he inquired if there was anyone 



70 AN lEISH KNIGHT. 

above stairs. Kearney answered, witli 
great sangfroid, that there was not. 
" We use the place," said he, " for 
light lumber ; it is not able to bear 
anything heavy on it." All this time 
Devlin lay crouching above, his blun- 
derbuss covering the approach to their 
hiding-place, and had Shaw attempted 
the ascent, his life would have surely 
been the forfeit. Not satisfied with 
the landlord's answer, he put his foot 
on the first step, when Mrs. Kearney 
gently detained him, saying, " Oh, sir, 
if you go up there you w411 fall through 
and be killed." Shaw seems not to 
have been deaf to this appeal, and with- 
drew. 

That evening this little band of 
brave spirits parted company, to meet 
no more. Neil O'Dwyer begged his 
chief to go with him into Wicklow, 



AN lEISH KNTGHT. 71 

where he could easily hide until a 
chance of escape should present itself ; 
but Emmet, although urged by his 
staff to accept this offer, steadily re- 
fused, saying, " No, 1 would not for 
any consideration go near Dwyer after 
our defeat. " That nio;ht he made his 
way back to Dublin, having determined 
to seek one more interview with Sarah 
Curran before leaving his native land 
forever. For that interview he threw 
his life into the balance, and lost it. 
On reaching the city he again went 
to Mrs. Palmer's, under the name of 
Hewitt, from whence he addressed sev- 
eral letters to Miss Curran ; but his 
hopes of gaining speech with her were 
fi'ustrated by his sudden capture. 

On the evening of August 25th, 
Major Sirr I'ang the door-bell, and, 
rushing past Mrs, Palmer's little girl. 



72 AN IRISH KNIGHT. 

who answered it, entered the back 
parlor where Emmet was sitting and 
placed him under arrest. Then dis- 
missing the mother and child, and 
having set his orderly to guard the 
prisoner, he questioned them- separately 
as to their lodger's name and the 
length of time he had resided with 
them. Their accounts being materially 
different from that given by Emmet, 
he returned to the room where he had 
left his prisoner, to find him covered 
with blood from a blow levelled at 
him by the guard while attempting to 
escape. Sirr then lost no time in call- 
ing an escort from Canal Bridge to 
conduct Emmet to the castle, where he 
was identified by one of his old col- 
lege enemies, the Provost of Trinity. 
Emmet made one more effort for lib- 
erty and life ; but Sirr, overtaking him, 



AN IRISH KNIGHT. 73 

frustrated liis object. When Emmet 
saw that escape was impossible, he sur- 
rendered. Sirr made some sort of 
apology for the rough treatment giv-en 
him ; but with that sweet temper which 
never deserted him, the patriot an- 
swered that it was " all fair in war." 

He was committed to Kilmainham 
Jail to await his ti-ial, and received 
better usage than was common toward 
the political prisoners who were unfor- 
tunate enough to come under the care 
of Dr. Trevor. 

Mason, Emmet's cousin, who occu- 
pied the next cell to his, and whose 
chief crime seems to have been his 
relationship to the unsuccessful con- 
spirator, concocted a plan of escape for 
Kobert ; but, unfortunately, George 
Dunn, the keeper, on whom depended 
their schemes, was a man whose very 



74 AN IRISH KNIGHT. 

name pollutes the pages of history. 
After receiving the bribes of these 
helpless men, and having deluded them 
with the hope of escape, he informed 
John Dunn, the prison governoi', of 
their intentions, and also handed him a 
letter to Miss Curran which Emmet 
had pledged him by all things holy to 
deliver safely into her own keeping. 
The encouragement policy was again 
adopted and Emmet, " all unknowing," 
carried on constant communications 
with Mason, which were duly inspected 
by the prison authorities. Dr. Trevor 
also stationed a man in the room above 
the cells occupied by the j^olitical 
prisoners, who, having bored Jioles 
through the floor, watched their move- 
ments, and overheard their conversations 
through this modern ear of Dionysus. 
Emmet requested Curran to defend 



AN" IRISH KNIGHT. 75 

liim at his trial, but was refused in 
rather harsh terms, if we are to judge 
by the piisoner's gently remonstrant 
letter in which he tells with directness 
and simplicity the story of his unhappy 
love. 

On hearing that his note to Sarah 
was in the hands of the Government, 
Emmet was desperate. He otfei'ed to 
tell all he knew of the conspiracy, 
saving the names of the participants, 
provided only that the letter was 
suppressed. Again, he promised to 
offer no defence and call no witness 
at his trial. Lastly, knowing how anx- 
ious his enemies were that he should 
not speak to the people from the 
scaffold, he promised to die silently. 
This last sacrifice propitiated the castle 
authorities, and the letter, for which 
poor Sarah Currau would no doubt 



76 AN lEISH KNIGHT. 

have given years of her life, was al- 
lowed to drift down the tide of forgot- 
ten State documents. 

Shortly before his trial one of the 
keepers, coming suddenly in upon him 
and seeing a peculiar expression on his 
face, made an apology for intruding. 
*' No,'' said Emmefc ; " you see I am in- 
nocently employed." Pointing to a fork 
driven into the table to which he had 
attached a lock of hair, he added, " This 
little tress has long been dear to me ; I 
am plaiting it to wear at my trial." It 
is needless to say the hair was hers for 
love of whom he had imperilled his life. 

So great was his gentleness and so 
magnetic his personality, that even in 
these humiliating circumstances he man- 
ao-ed to win the affections of the turn- 
key of his ward and command the es- 
teem of the prison governor. 



AN IRISH KNIGHT. 77 

On Monday, September 19, 1803, 
Robert Emmet was brought for trial 
before a special commission, consisting 
of Lord Norbury, George, and Daley. 
The court assig-ned as counsel for him 
Messrs. Ball, Burrows and McNally — 
O'Grady and thrice-perjured Plunket 
acting for the Crown. 

Emmet was dressed in black, with 
the exception of his white shorts and 
silk stockings — it was afterward dis- 
covered that the little braid of Sarah 
Curran's hair was folded inside his 
.stock. Thus did he march to hear the 
sentence of death, armed with a con- 
science void of oifence, and comforted 
only by the memory of his love. 

The witnesses for the Crown |)roved 
beyond doubt his participation in the 
rebellion, but, as he had promised, he 
made no effort at defence. However, 



78 AN IRISH KNIGHT. 

wlien Plimket rose to reply, his coun- 
sel pleaded tliat as there was no tes- 
timony called in behalf of the prisoner, 
there was no occasion for further prose- 
cution. But Plinihet v/ould not avail 
of this permission to throw silence like 
a cloak over the many-colored vesture 
of his own politics. This facile gentle- 
man, who but a iew years ago had de- 
claimed in flowing phrases, to the ad- 
vocates of the Union, that he would 
defend it with the last drop of his 
blood, and " when he felt the hour of 
his dissolution approaching" he, like 
Hannibal, would take his children to 
the altar and swear them to eternal 
hostility against the invaders of his 
country's freedom — now, when the 
hope of Ireland's emancipation seemed 
flown forever, stretched the furthest 
limits of the court to heap vituperative 



AT«r IRISH KNIGHT. 7^ 

epithets on the head of him who had 
but embraced the doctrines Pliinket 
had advocated. Silence now fell upon 
the vast assembly. Every eye turned 
eagerly toward the juiy, who, without 
leaving the box, rendered the verdict of 
'' Guilty." Then rose such a yell of 
concentrated fury from the crowd that 
it shook the judge upon the bench; so 
terrible that the foreman, turning pale, 
sought military protection. 

Amid the oppressive silence which 
ensued. Lord Norbury read the death- 
warrant, ending with the formal ques- 
tion, " What have you to say why sen- 
tence of death and execution should not 
be awarded against you ? " Then, like 
the lightning from some dark cloud, 
flashed Emmet's eye, and like an im- 
petuous torrent bearing all before it 
rolled on the flood of his irresistible 



80 AN lEISH KNIGHT. 

eloquence. Then did he vindicate his 
stainless honor in that oration deliv- 
ered, " To time and to eternity, and not 
to man." We have no perfect record 
of this wonderful defence ; but, like 
the stray diamonds of a broken neck- 
let, here and there his words, garnered 
in the loving hearts of his countrymen, 
come flashing out to give us an ap- 
proximate idea of the j)erfect beauty of 
the whole. 

It was ten o'clock at night when, 
through the silent streets of Dublin, 
passed the military escort, bearing witK 
them a condemned prisoner toward 
Newgate. Emmet was here delivered 
over to the tender mercies of Gri gg. 
This worthy emissary of the castle- 
government placed the unhappy patriot 
in a condemned cell and loaded his 
exhausted frame with irons. But not 



AT^ IRISH KNIGHT. 81 

yet was the necessary rest and quiet 
vouchsafed him. At midnight came a 
detachment of soldiers with a warrant 
" to remove the traitor, Robert Emmet, 
to his old quarters at Kilmainham." 

Off again they marched through the 
starlight and the silence of the sleep- 
ing city. It was supposed that the 
Government had received some intima- 
tion of a projected rescue, and that it 
was on this account that the last 
hours of the condemned man were so 
ruthlessly intruded upon. 

When the party reached the jail the 
prisoner's ankles were severely lacerated 
by the fetters ; yet, though weakened by 
loss of blood, overcome by the fatigues 
of the previous day and the want of 
food, his uncomplaining fortitude seems 
to have touched even the heart of a 
prison official. With tears in his eyes 



82 AN IRISH KNIGHT. 

Geoi'ge Dunn ordered Emmet's chains 
removed and refreshment to be pro- 
vided for him. 

As he passed the cell of one of his 
fellow-conspirators, stepping close to 
the grating he whispered, " I am to be 
hanged to-morrow," and then went quiet- 
ly by, so great was his self-control. He 
spent the remainder of the night in writ- 
ing. To his brother, Thomas Addis, he 
sent a detailed account of the proposed 
plan of attack and defence. To the two 
Currans he also wrote letters, and, al- 
though addressed to Richard, one of 
these communications was evidently in- 
tended foi' the perusal of his unhappy 
ladylove. In it he says : " I intended as 
much happiness for Sarah as the most 
ardent love could have given. I never 
did tell you how much I idolized her ; " 
and again : '' My love, Sarah, I did hope 



AlSr IRISH KNIGHT. 83 

to be a prop round which your afEections 
mio;ht have cluno^, and which woukl 
never have been shaken ; but a rude 
blast has snapped it, and they have 
fallen over a grave." Nor did he allow 
personal considerations to monopolize 
his attention, even in the face of death. 
Knowing that all Ireland listened breath- 
less, that she might catch every ^vord 
dropped by the departing hero, he took 
occasion to write that noble praise of 
the governmental clemency which the 
constant interruptions of tlie judge had 
prevented his delivering in court. 

The spectacle of such magnanimity 
shining amidst the gathering shadows of 
annihilation is as beautiful as it is rare. 

The prison minister was with him 
when McNally ari'ived, bringing the 
news of Mrs. Emmet's death. This high- 
minded and true-hearted woman, who, 



84 AlSr IRISH KNiGHT. 

like Rebecca, staked all her kopes upon 
lier youngest son, could not survive Ms 
trial, Slie expired during tlie night. 
Emmet, knowing of he]' illness, and 
probably alarmed by McNally's face, 
immediately questioned him about his 
mother. His counsel then told him 
of his calamity, as gently as possible. 
For a few moments he stood silently 
struggling to suppress his emotion, then 
saying, " It is better so," turned resign- 
edly away to prepare his soul for 
eternity. A sincere Christian, Emmet 
experienced no fear of death ; boi-ne up 
by the consciousness of his own integrity 
of purpose, and the woi-thiness of the 
cause for which he suffered, he com- 
pletely ignored the disgrace and obloquy 
attendant on the scaiiokL So perfectly 
had he overcome any feeling of this kind 
that, a few hours before his young life 



AN" lEISH KNIGHT. 85 

was quenclied forever, he sketched upon 
the table of his cell a head severed from 
the trunk and surrounded by all the par- 
aphernalia of an execution. The face, 
it is said, was an excellent likeness of 
himself. 

At about one o'clock they came to 
lead him forth ; he received the summons 
with that fortitude which, indeed, never 
deserted him. " I have," he said, " two 
requests ; the first, that my arms may be 
left as loose as possible. I make the 
other, not under any idea that it will be 
granted, but that it may ])e held in re- 
membrance that I have made it. It is, 
that I may be permitted to die ia my 
uniform." The first of these favors 
was humanely accorded him ; the second, 
as he divined, was refused. He bade 
good-by with much kindness to those 
around him, especially to the turnkey 



86 AN IRISH KNIGHT. 

Vlio had particularly attended to him. 
This poor fellow had in those few days 
learned to love his noble charge, and the 
tears were streamino^ down his ruo^o;"ed 
face. Emmet's hands being tied, lean- 
ing over, he gently kissed him on the 
forehead. Now they passed out into the 
open street. Along their way men and 
women stood watcliing for a last look 
of him who was to die because he loved 
his Ireland too well to brook the de- 
struction of her liberties. At the win- 
dows of all tlie houses anxious faces 
j)eered out to catch the first sign of his 
approach. 

It was no hollow mourning, such as 
follows a king when, bereft of crown 
and sceptre, he is borne in state to rest 
in the grave of his ancestors. This con- 
demned criminal had placed upon his 
young brow the better diadem of a 



AN IRISH KNIGHT. bi 

people's love, and every Irislimaii felt 
the sharp blow that severed him from 
life as though that life, so precious to 
them all, were indeed interwoven with 
their very heartstrings. 

Guarded by a strong military escort 
he passed to the place of execution, and, 
as the carriage moved on, ever and anon 
would he nod to some acquaintance in 
the street or at the windows. Love met 
him in every eye; blessings followed him 
from every heart. Thus the coi'tege bore 
more resemblance to the obsequies of a 
hero than the exit of a condemned crim- 
inal. At one place on the route they 
passed a carriage with but a single oc- 
cupant. As he iieared the spot Emmet 
put his head out of the window and mo- 
tioned with his poor, bound hand. The 
young woman in the vehicle stood up a 
moment to wave her handkerchief, then 



05 AN IRISH KlSriGHT. 

sinking back slie covered lier face, over- 
come with emotion. Emmet continued 
to gaze after lier as long as slie remained 
in sio^lit. This was his last meetins: on 
earth with Sarah Curran ; Ijut their sep- 
aration was not for lona;. Bowed down 
by a load of grief, too heavy for her 
slight frame, she died of a broken 
heart, in scarcely more than a year — 
following him she loved so well to that 
bourn from whence no traveller has re- 
turned. The patriot's dauntless cour- 
age never faltered. He ascended the 
scaffold v/ith a firm step, and, turning to 
those around him, said : " My friends, 
I die in peace, and with sentiments of 
universal love and kindness to all men." 
"Irish soil drank the blood of her 
loving son, but it still cries from the 
ground, pleading for the liberty to se- 
cure which he sacrificed his life." 



AiSr lEISH KNIGHT. 89 

In tlie deserted churchyard of St. 
Michins there is a slal) on which no 
name is traced. Beneath this stone rest 
the aslies of E.obert Emmet. ' How long, 
oh, Ireland, how long will it remain 
without an epitaph ! 

Thus died Ireland's true knight, sink- 
ing into tlie grave clothed in all tlie 
bright promise of his youth ; never to 
put on the sad livery of age ; never to 
feel the hopelessness of those who live 
to see the principles for which they 
suffered trampled and forgotten by the 
onward march of new interests and new 
men. Perhaps Freedom, like some deity 
of ancient Greece, loved him too well to 
let the " slurs and contumely of outra- 
geous fortune" dun the bright lustre of 
his virgin fame. Was it that in every 
revolution there must be some sacrifice 
to fill the ravenous jaws of watchful 



90 AN IRISH KNIGHT. 

tyranny e'er the new libei'ated people 
can raarcli forward to the fruition of 
their hopes ? Or is it that the graves 
of those who fall, like I'oad-side crosses, 
point new generations on the road to 
freedom ? 

'' Man dies, but his memory lives," 
and the name of Emmet shall ever 
awaken an answering thrill in Irish 
breasts as long as the shami'ock grows 
green on the hills of Tara, and as long 
as the sea moans among the rocks of 
Connaught. 

Man dies, but the principles which 
animated him are in their very essence 
immortal ; like the phoenix, they sink in- 
to their ashes only to rise again, doub- 
ly resplendent, upon the wings of hope. 

Ireland stands now with outstretclied 
hands eagerly waiting the advent of her 
freedom. Now has she climbed with 



AN IRISH KNIGHT. 91 

tireless feet the rugged path which alone 
leads to Liberty's demesne. Who, tlien, 
shall say that tliose have failed who, 
with their very heart's blood, fed the 
watchfires for her guidance, who deemed 
it glory to be accounted worthy of such 
sacrifice ? That patriot-blood may be 
the talisman to break the chains that 
ever bound her down, the veriest slave, 
at England's mercy ; and now, that in 
the near future ^\^e may see — oh, blessed 
vision ! — a new era dawn upon this 
beautiful but unhappy land, let us rev- 
erently remember those who died mar- 
tyrs in the effort to serve their coun- 
trymen. 

"Oh not for idle hatred, not for honor, fame, nor 
self-apjplause, 
But for the glory of the catise 
You did what will not be forgot." 

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Sold everyivluTP. 
•ire, 50c. , SI, Sl-TS. 

:~ CO., 

Sth^Ave., Hew York. 




AI.I. AG:ES-Infanta to Adults. 
LEADING RETAILERS everywhere. 
SEND FOB CIBCULAB. 

IS BROS. i^MEMIMiMi 

lll^-^^ 341 Broadway, 5^ew York. I 
^ML FIELD & CO., CHICAGO, Wholesale Western 



LOVTULL LIB BART ADYERTISEB. 



Send $1.25, S2.25, 
«3.50, or $5,00 for a 
sample retail box, by 
expiess, pi'epaicl, of 
the Best CAKDIES 
in America. Strittly 
pure, an'l pat up in 
elega-jt boxes. Suit- 
able for presents. 
Kef era to all Chicago. 
Try it. Aciclriss, 

G. F. GUNTHER, 

Confectioner, 

212 Stats St., 

CHICAGO. 



STOiAQH BITTERS 

HAS FOR 35 TEARS BEEN 

Adopted b^ Physicians and Invalids 

AS A REMEDY FOR 

Indjgesfion. Dyspepsin. 

Fever and Ague. Malaria, 
Neuralgia, Klieumatism, 
(Jciieral Debility, 
And oth?i- KINDRED DISEASES, 

AS CnSFIUMED BY 

THOUSANDS OF TESTIMONI^UI^S IN 

OUR POSSESSION. 

Ask your di-uggist for it, and take none but 

H0:.TETTES'3 STJMXCH BITTE.'^S. 



'OTJS.E 



gICK PIDACHE ! | 



BY USING THE GENLir;E 




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PRICE, 25 CENTS. 
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. 

msm^ ^i^^M^ Scad us the out- 
side wrapper from a box of the 
genuine Dr. C. McLAZTIl'S Cele- 
brated Liver Pills, Tzitn your 
address, plainly written, and we 
will send you, by return mail, a 
magniflsent package of Chromatic 
and Oleographic Cards. E^ma^S^j | 

FLEMING BROS. 

piTTseyRCi^, p/ 




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THE 



THE GREAT REFORM GARMENT 

OF THE AGE, 

As Shapely as a Regular Corset. | j 
^5 A HEALTH GARMENT IT STANDS PRE-EMINENT. 




The rapid increase in sales is a sure guarantee to each lady of its merits. 
After a week's trial, if not satisfactory, the money will be refunded. Ask your 
merchants for them or send the Jackson Corset Co., Jackson, Mich., SI, 25 for 
Sample and Prlce-List. Made in Sateen, Silesia, Flannel, and Gauze— Button 
or Steel Eront. Canvassers wantea. 

Ilundreds of ladies hive written: "Am more than pleased, will wear no 
other." Merchant^' say : "The Jackson Corset V\^ai3t sales exceed any other 
Corset in stock." Try tlicm. Our Baker Waist for Children, our Misses' Cor« 
Bet, our Summer Gauze Ladies' Corset, beat the world. 

Jackson Corset Co., Jackson, Midi. 




c. G. Bsiees & 00. 




^ ^PPfeton St., Boston, Mass. 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

GRAND, SQUARE & UPRIGHT 



IVIatchless Tone^ - Beautiful Finish 

— =Send for 



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^■Jf.'l tfied this^exc^eller-t Remedy 

.v>^i ^. AD. KOHTIS & 00 

radeinark i FuU particmSSfed- free 




^P^>' f CORAL ■ GIRiL; • by 

Gertrude Fordo.... % 

IJKRTHA'S SECRET, by'F.Du 

MY LOKB conceit; by "Kita"20 

JOHN W. LOYELL CO., 
14 & 16 Vesey St, N. Y. 



Eefunded if not entirely patisfqpi-ovir tc < 

0r. Seyfliiig's 0©ii®d Win Sprin] 




VSS^f^^' ^^ •^'''"' ™^^chaDt does not bave them, will n^a-'i postDaid. 

lltZTiif^'^^u?''-' ^■^^-,^^•'5' E"gHsh Sateen, $1.50? 
r^ursmg, $1.25; Abdominal, $2; Young Ladies', $1; filiissss'; 85c, 



And 261 & 263 Frankiin St., Chicago^ 



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'Bnft^BI ^ss^^ft^l ,^m^s\- 'ShC'^'^\^ 

^S^oFthi^thoroughMlitroductiorfofthe^ 
pierfume into every particle of the soap. 
iBiaborate and intricate machinery is 
Sised and every cake is stamped with; 
$uch enormous pressuriiiSpioji^thal 
tit will^jutlast^^d^i ojjig^r^^^^ G^ ^ 



In^addili^ to the"unequalled/yfashin| 
gualitiel:^fCashmCTe Bouquet jtfperfa 
iKceptionally delicate , and deli^^^ 
scompos elilol^^ 



BOUOUET 




Jfessrs^^ColptelXfTi^^ 
paran::ampunt of Iheir CASHMEREBOUQUET 
toilet SMpfari of the combined 

l^poifed^Ioiy frpmLEn|land.Francei 

Germany. Italy and all other.countries. ^ 

This enormous sale of a singk^soap is all 
(the more'remarkable when it is remembered 
that Cashmere Bouquet is but one of 103 varieties 
of toilet soaps manufacturetby Colgatj&Cp. 



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